The Southern Graphics Council International conference, which is being hosted this week by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, has seen the highest attendance in its history.

The annual conference has attracted 2,060 artists from around the world to Milwaukee, said Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, the head of printmaking at UWM's Peck School of the Arts and one of the people who helped attract the conference to Milwaukee. | March 22, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(1)

Taylor Swift goes pop, Blake Shelton keeps it country (although to some, that's debatable) and Nickelback starts a revolution. (But not really. Not in the slightest.) Listen to these artist's new songs and read our reviews below.

The Milwaukee power pop act's first two EPs — a self-titled release in 2012 and "Saturns of Stars" in 2013 — were produced by a Grammy winner, Stephen Short. Short worked with the likes of Paul McCartney, Queen and Genesis at Trident Studios in London; won Grammys for his work for Chaka Khan and Christian band dc Talk; and managed the band Augustana early in its career. You may have even heard a song about him — "Steven's Last Night in Town" by Ben Folds Five. | Aug. 20, 2014»Read Full Article

If summer nights are synonmous with summer concerts for you and yours, Wednesday evenings tend to be especially packed with options. Here's a bit of what's going on in Milwaukee today, including some opportunities to wiggle your toes in the grass and listen to music in the open air.